It is tastier than pills or black tea, and it does not need sugar. Banana peel tea contains 5-HT and 5-HTP, the latter being a mild sleep-inducing agent, literally a narcotic, and not a controlled substance.

1 Ingredients

• Organic Bananas

2 Steps

1. As you eat bananas, peel off labels, and throw peels into your freezer.
2. When you have enough peels to fill your pan, let them thaw in your pan for an hour or two. They should turn black.
3. Put them in your oven at pasteurization temperature (65C or 150F) until they are dry (less than two hours).
4. Pre-process your banana peels, by cracking and shredding them by hand a little bit.
5. Pulverize about one peel at a time in your blender, adding up to four before emptying your blender into your dry tea jar.
6. One heaping tablespoon is good for a large (350mL) mug brought to boiling.

3 Tips

• It is sweeter as a green (unfrozen) tea.
• My oven reads 225F, when it is actually 150F according to a thermometer in water.

4 Things You Will Need

• Freezer
• Baking or cake pan
• Oven that goes down to sixty-five degrees Celsius or one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit.
• Blender
• Closed container (perhaps an ice cream pail) for dry tea
• Stainless steel Coffee strainer